Sunday, September 13, 2009

"We're gonna be so fucking cool"

Magdalena and I are gonna cross America on two motorcycles. We're gonna be so fucking cool, mirrors and windows will break when we pass by. We'll have our own hardcore theme music that makes us throw our heads back and bite the sky, and women wearing pink foam curlers in passing RVs will desire us and we'll slowly turn to them at seventy-five miles an hour and mouth "hello" back. Bugs may stick to my burgundy lipstick, but I'll just spit them back and they'll look all the prettier for it....And we'll be spitting out mango pits like fucking bullets if anyone says anything about our huge Latin American breasts." -pg 42-43 of course packet

This quote describes Lopez's idealized, fantasy-like perception of what a road trip is. Despite the fact that the actual road trip did not reap such success for her, Lopez keeps this haughty sense of attitude throughout most of the story. She's like the female Jagerbomb guy. For her, a road trip is an opportunity to travel across the country as a glorified bad ass. She wants the self-gratification, the sense of superiority, a chance to do something she's never done before and then be able to brag about it later. For Lopez this road trip is not to gain wisdom nor for enlightenment to quench her thirst of curiosity, no. Lopez decided to jump on a motorcycle after just learning how to ride and "vroom" across the country to reiterate to herself and to others that she is the coolest of them all. She's just your typical "I-think-I'm-on-the-outskirts-of-society-and-therefore-I-just-really-want-to-be-the-center-of-attention-for-once" kind of gal.

My question is: Am I wrong?

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